Former Chronicle News Editor PointAustin returns to discuss Gov. Abbott's claim that he's the best governor in the nation.
reported that his Rio Grande buoy-and-razor-wire blockade is causing serious injuries and deaths among migrants, including children. A trooper wrote to his superiors, saying Border Patrol officers had been ordered to turn people back at the river and to deny them water. At least some troopers were balking at the orders, to no avail. “We made contact with command again and expressed our concerns,” wrote one trooper, “and we were given the order to tell them to go to Mexico.
, the corporate bill-mill that churns out reactionary templates for state legislatures to rubber-stamp. His “Best of 2020” award was roughly the equivalent of Colonel Sanders getting a nod from the National Chicken-Pluckers Association. ALEC says it based Abbott’s recognition on a study performed by Laffer Associates, the consulting firm run by Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore.
Abbott and company will call the plan “Education Savings Accounts” or some other euphemism, but such voucher plans – enthusiastically promoted by ALEC & Co. – essentially work by transferring funds that should be going to public schools to families already paying tuition for their children in private schools. In other words, it’s another tax cut scam for the rich.
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